Over mid-year break, many students watched the movies released in December, 2008. Five of the most popular movies were: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Seven Pounds," "Bedtime Stories," "Yes Man," and "Valkyrie." For each movie, ten random students (who have seen the movie) were asked to give it a rating out of five stars based on their own opinions.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (4 STARS)*, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, is a movie based on the 1920s novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which tells the story of a man named Benjamin (Pitt) who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.
"I gave this movie five stars. I thought it was a really unique movie because the main character ages backwards. I also thought that it was really sad." – FRESHMAN POOJA RAVIKIRAN
"Bedtime Stories"(4 STARS)*, starring Adam Sandler, is about a hotel handyman named Skeeter Bronson (Sandler) who gets an unexpected surprise when he discovers that all the stories that he has been telling his niece and nephew are coming true.
"I gave 'Bedtime Stories' four stars. It wasn't the greatest movie because the plot was too predictable, but it was still really funny. I think Adam Sandler did an okay job." – SOPHOMORE KAREN MENG
"We gave 'Yes Man' four stars. It was really funny, but a little bit disturbing at times. We'd recommend it to people who have a more mature sense of humor." – FRESHMEN CHARLOTTE YUAN AND EMILY WANG
"I gave this movie three stars. I thought that the movie lacked a lot of effort put in to making the movie more German-ish. Almost all the officers had a British accent, and I thought that Tom Cruise could have done better." – JUNIOR ARUN KUCHIBHOTLA
